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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2613747, member: 76194&quot;]Some of the major dealers, like Civitas Galleries, had checked out by 1:00PM when I got there. By 3:00 PM about a quarter of dealers had packed up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prices on ancients was ridiculous, although a few decently priced coins could be had if you looked carefully. I did not feel like paying 250 dollars for an Elagabalus Ant, 350 for a regular Antoninus Pius denarius in VF condition, or 1200 dollars for an Alexander lifetime Tet issue in VF condition, so the hard part was finding dealers with decently priced coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Crowds were healthy though. A decent attendance. Not large, but not insignificant either. One dealer said Thursday was the big day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you got past ancients and world coin dealers, the rest was depressing. It was isle after isle of plastic slab sellers. Even the cheapest American coins were probably overpriced because it was pretty much slab gallore. And of course, the major slab companies were there to indoctrinate kids getting into the hobby, and their parents, to always buy the slab...not so much the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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